This forum is for aspiring beekeepers to ask questions and get information on how to start keeping bees. This forum is for those who have no actual beekeeping experience. This is for making plans and getting prepared for the day.

"The majority of problems are imaginary and the majority of solutions are illusions."--Michael Bush

"You can’t get the right answer when you are asking the wrong question."--Michael Bush, Belief in Beekeeping 2015 bushfarms.com/beesbelief.htm

"Here, then, is the short answer to every beekeeping issue. Give them the resources to resolve the problem and let them. If you can’t give them the resources, then limit the need for the resources."--Michael Bush, The Practical Beekeeper, Chapter: BLUF

"There are few solutions as universal in their application and their success, than adding a frame of open brood from another hive every week for three weeks. It is a virtual panacea for any queen issues. It gives the bees the pheromones to suppress laying workers. It gives them more workers coming in during a period where there is no laying queen. It does not interfere if there is a virgin queen. It gives them the resources to rear a queen. It is virtually foolproof and does not require finding a queen or seeing eggs or accurately diagnosing the problem. If you have any issue with queenrightness, no brood, worried that there is no queen, this is the simple solution that requires no worrying, no waiting, no hoping and no guessing. You just give them what they need to resolve the situation. If you have any doubts about the queenrightness of a hive, give them some open brood and sleep well. Repeat once a week for two more weeks if you still aren't sure. By then things will be well on their way to being fine."--Michael Bush

"No one teaches beekeeping quite as well as bees."--Michael Bush, The Practical Beekeeper, Chapter: BLUF